October 6

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). There are 86
days remaining.

Events:

   * 105 BC - Battle of Arausio The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the
     Roman army of Mallius Maximus
   * 891 - Formosus becomes Pope
   * 1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, is
     premiered in Florence
   * 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
   * 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
   * 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, first talking movie
   * 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes President of China
   * 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in America
   * 1981 - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated
   * 1973 - The Yom Kippur War begins

Births:

   * 1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France
   * 1820 - Jenny Lind, singer
   * 1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (+ 1916)
   * 1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer, inventor (+ 1914)
   * 1868 - George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post (+
     1937)
   * 1882 - Karol Szymanowski, composer (+ 1937)
   * 1886 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (+ 1960)
   * 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (+ 1965)
   * 1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (+ 1998)
   * 1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (+ 1984)
   * 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (+ 1942)
   * 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer on the Kon-Tiki expedition.
     (+ 2002)
   * 1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (+ 2000)
   * 1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricket player
   * 1948 - Gerry Adams, Irish politician
   * 1950 - David Brin, science fiction author
   * 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver (+1985)

Deaths:

   * 1892 - Alfred Tennyson, British author
   * 1962 - Tod Browning, American film director
   * 1981 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president (assassinated)
   * 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress
   * 1992 - Denholm Elliott, actor
   * 1993 - Agnes de Mille, dancer, choreographer
   * 1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer
   * 2002 - Claus von Amsberg (76), husband of Queen Beatrix of the
     Netherlands

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